I was wondering that until the other day when I saw someone buy something. It was a speaker cabinet. I was shocked. I have seen some of their ridiculous pricing... $2500 for a 79 JMP Master Model 100 watt MkII Lead? C'mon give me a break, that amp should sell for about $1200 in pristine condition. To me, I wouldn't spend over $1000 for one even in pristine condition. I got the 1977 50 watt version recently and I spent $950 but it is totally immaculate. I wouldn't have spent so much on it had it not been so clean and unmodded. The internals are even original with exception of 1 little cap that had been replaced due to use and it was replaced with an orange drop instead of a sprague. If it had been in ok condition I would have never spent over $750.
I have never bought from the GC auctions but I have tried to get them to ship some items to my local GC for hands on inspection. There have been some very rare items show up on the GC auctions that I may have bartered with them locally once it was already shipped to the local GC. Otherwise their pricing is a little out of line on their auctions. I like to see guys trying to get GC listing prices on their B-I-N. Nobody ever gets it. They think that GC pricing is right. It is funny.
The thing I don't get is why they think they can charge you sales tax if you live where there are GCs when the payment center is in FL? I can see maybe in FL but if you don't live in FL it is just wrong. They are reaming people with it too. I live in CA and they will try to charge us almost 8% even though you are making a purchase in FL. This is retarded. For this I will not even bother looking at their auctions. I am assuming though that you get the satisfaction guarantee as if you are buying it in store if you are paying salestax. I might try that if they refund shipping too just to make them eat more on something to make them more willing to reduce their price to get rid of it in the meantime wait for it to get reduced. Ok I know this is convoluted but so is their whole advertising/pricing. What goes around comes around....
